UPDATE 2/24/12: Commenter Chew Bird notes that som... ...log strongly disagree with him. They argue that a nuclear detonation is a reasonable measurement of energy... ...but it sort of trivializes the notion." [...]But nuclear weapons deliver more than just sheer force; there's also... ...think of when we thi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/24/Nuclear-Explosions-as-Units-of-Measurement/(YouTube link) Don't for a minute think that ju... ...y every country in the world doesn't already have nuclear weapons . Uranium comes in two isotopes, but only one is u...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/19/how-to-enrich-uranium/
Can you just plop a community of 70,000 residents onto 70,000 acres of land and keep it a secret? Sort of. People in the area knew that the government was doing something classified at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but since the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/15/the-u-s-governments-top-secret-town/
Allegedly, this is a photograph of the beginni... ...gedly, this is a photograph of the beginning of a nuclear detonation. It was taken in 1952 during the Tumbl...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/14/1-millisecond-into-a-nuclear-explosion/
[caption id="attachment_56489" align="alignleft" w... ...plutonium, the highly unstable fuel used in most nuclear bombs. And he was making it more unstable with ev... ...ted States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons at the time, but the government knew that wouldn'... .... If America was g...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/28/the-curse-of-the-demon-core/
If you really want to light up the sky, nothing will do it quite like a nuke. London-based designer Luca Veneri has the same approach for illuminating a single room. Link -via Technabob | Designer's Website | Photo:...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/18/nuclear-blast-lamp/
Various sources around the Internet indicate t... ...er toasty while allowing him to interact with the weapons console unobstructed. Missileers learn that on...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/16/death-wears-bunny-slippers-life-inside-a-nuclear-missile-silo/
A secret corps of photographers and filmmakers... ...rps of photographers and filmmakers documented US nuclear testing in the 1940s through the '60s. The "atomi... ...mic documentaries, “Countdown to Zero” and “ Nuclear Tipping Point,” feature archival images of th... ...is on the rise and call for...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/14/the-bomb-chroniclers/(YouTube Link) A (presumably) abandoned ship... ...Link) A (presumably) abandoned ship near a US nuclear test is swamped by the resulting massive wave. T... ...lled with pictures, videos, and information about nuclear weapons . via Urlesque | Atom Central
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/05/underwater-atomic-explosion-swamps-ship/
The tumblr blog We Love Data Visualizations ha... ...ascinating maps and charts. This one lists every nuclear explosion, the setting, the year, and the respons...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/08/a-world-map-of-every-nuclear-explosion/
